GUWAHATI, March 17 ? The police department is suffering heavy losses over the years due to its failure to realise the money due from the Central government and private organisations for deployment of police personnel. The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG), in its report for the year ending March, 2001, said that scrutiny of the records of the Office of the Director General of Police in December, 2000, revealed that against Rs 734.55 lakh spent as a cost of deployment of police guards between April, 1981 and March, 2000 in seven departments and organisations only Rs 206 lakh was...

DIBRUGARH, March 17 ? The simmering inter-state border dispute at the Koriapani area near Margherita has cooled down after cordial meetings between senior civil officials of Tinsukia district and Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh. There have been reports that some miscreants encroached into Assam territory at Koriapani recently and declared that the place was a part of Arunachal Pradesh. On Friday, the Tinsukia DC, Samir Kumar Sinha and his Changlang counterpart, Talem Tapok, aided by the Margherita civil SDO, Ratul Chandra Duarah, sat in a friendly meeting and discussed the fracas and...

AGARTALA, March 17 ? In a major achievement, Border Security Force (BSF) detained three hardcore militants belonging to People?s Liberation Army of Manipur and one belonging to NSCN (Khaplang) in North Tripura district on Sunday morning. One AK 47 rifle, grenades, three magazines and other incriminating documents were recovered from their possession. The militants were coming from their Bangladesh camps enroute to Manipur, BSF sources said. The PLA militants who were sharing a camp at Sylhet area in Bangladesh with the NSCN (Khaplang) were using Dharmanagar and Panisagar route in North Tripura...

Imphal, March 17: Additional security personnel have been deployed at the 2nd IRB post at Molnoi village in Pallel after last night?s encounter between IRB jawans and NSCN (IM) militants in which 11 cadres of the latter were killed and 15 arms, two hand grenades and several rounds of ammunition recovered. A police statement issued today said the jawans and officers who carried out the operations have been awarded. Their cases for Gallantry and other awards are being taken up. Official reports said security in other hill districts have also been tightened up in view of the high casualty on the...

AIZAWL, March 14 ? Mizoram government and the Bru National Liberation Front (BNLF) might soon sign a memorandum of settlement to end the four-year old Bru insurgency in the State and expedite repatriation of Brus from neighbouring Tripura. Government officials, on the condition of anonymity, told PTI recently that the State government had drafted a memorandum of settlement which would be discussed in the fourth round of talks with the BNLF in the later part of this month or early March. They, however, refused to divulge the terms and conditions of the draft agreement. The officials felt that...